NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. historian Jill Lepore about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." The writer Jill Lepore wrote a history of the United States called ...

It was signed into law by a president who had won election in one of the largest landslides in American history. It was ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" (to be published Sept. 16 by Liveright), Harvard professor and ...

Between August 1990 and March 1991, Fort McCoy was a hub of mobilization and support for Operation Desert Shield and ...

Think you know American history? Maybe it’s time to reconsider. The story of the United States is far more complicated, painful, and fascinating than what most of us learned in school. Too often, the ...

The Shabbat 250 proclamation is not merely a gesture: it is a response that recovers the original spirit of the Constitution.